Manuel Cebrian

Author Correction: Trading contact tracing efficiency for finding patient zero.

Marcin Waniek, Petter Holme, Katayoun Farrahi, Rémi Emonet, Manuel Cebrian, Talal Rahwan

Journal article  |  2023  |  Sci Rep

The original version of this Article contained an error in Affiliation 1, which was incorrectly given as ‘New York University Abu ..

Trading contact tracing efficiency for finding patient zero.

Marcin Waniek, Petter Holme, Katayoun Farrahi, Rémi Emonet, Manuel Cebrian, Talal Rahwan

Journal article  |  2022  |  Sci Rep

As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, identifying the origin of a pandemic remains a challenging task. The search for patient..

Bots influence opinion dynamics without direct human-bot interaction: the mediating role of recommender systems

N Pescetelli, D Barkoczi, M Cebrian

Journal article  |  2022  |  Applied Network Science

Bots’ ability to influence public discourse is difficult to estimate. Recent studies found that hyperpartisan bots are unlikely to..

Social diffusion sources can escape detection.

Marcin Waniek, Petter Holme, Manuel Cebrian, Talal Rahwan

Journal article  |  2022  |  iScience

Influencing others through social networks is fundamental to all human societies. Whether this happens through the diffusion of ru..

Machine behaviour

I Rahwan, M Cebrian, N Obradovich, J Bongard, JF Bonnefon, C Breazeal, JW Crandall, NA Christakis, ID Couzin, MO Jackson, NR Jennings, E Kamar, IM Kloumann, H Larochelle, D Lazer, R McElreath, A Mislove, DC Parkes, A Pentland, ME Roberts, et al.

Book Chapter  |  2022

Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and political interactions. This ..

Automation impacts on China’s polarized job market

HC Chen, X Li, M Frank, X Qin, W Xu, M Cebrian, I Rahwan

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Computational Social Science

When facing automation threats, a large Chinese city worker might not be as lucky as a worker in a large US city. Empirical studie..

Indirect Causal Influence of a Single Bot on Opinion Dynamics Through a Simple Recommendation Algorithm

N Pescetelli, D Barkoczi, M Cebrian

Book Chapter  |  2022  |  Studies in Computational Intelligence

The ability of social and political bots to influence public opinion is often difficult to estimate. Recent studies found that hyp..

Time-critical decentralised situational awareness in emergencies: an adversarial biosecurity scenario

J Bassett, N Pescetelli, A Rutherford, M Cebrian

Journal article  |  2021  |  Applied Network Science

Crises in a global setting of interdependencies call for time-critical coordinated responses. However, it is often the case that t..

Evolution of urban forms observed from space

H Chen, Y Kryvasheyeu, W Xu, Y Huang, J Deng, S Ren, X Li, I Rahwan, M Cebrian

Journal article  |  2021  |  EPJ Data Science

Multiple driving forces shape cities. These forces include the costs of transporting goods and people, the types of predominant lo..

The network limits of infectious disease control via occupation-based targeting.

Demetris Avraam, Nick Obradovich, Niccolò Pescetelli, Manuel Cebrian, Alex Rutherford

Journal article  |  2021  |  Sci Rep

Policymakers commonly employ non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce the scale and severity of pandemics. Of non-pharmaceutical..